Andrew Johnston (singer)
Andrew Johnston was born in Dumfries, Scotland, and his parents separated when he was eight months old. He became head chorister at Carlisle Cathedral, and was bullied at school because of his love of classical music. He appeared as a boy soprano on the second series of Britain’s Got Talent in 2008. He received a contract to record with Syco Music, a label owned by the judge Simon Cowell. His debut album, One Voice, was released in September of the same year, and reached number four on the UK Albums Chart.
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Andrew Johnston was born in Dumfries, Scotland, and his parents separated when he was eight months old. He became head chorister at Carlisle Cathedral, and was bullied at school because of his love of classical music. He appeared as a boy soprano on the second series of Britain’s Got Talent in 2008. Although he did not win the competition, he received a contract to record with Syco Music, a label owned by the judge Simon Cowell. His debut album, One Voice, was released in September of the same year, and reached number four on the UK Albums Chart. Although Johnston originally performed as a treble, his voice has since matured to baritone, and he is now a member of the National Youth Choir. In 2009, he graduated from Trinity School. He now studies full-time at the Royal Northern College of Music. He is the son of Andrew Johnston and Morag Brannock. He was given the extensive name Andrew Aaron Lewis Patrick Brannocks John Grieve Michael Robert Oscar Schmidt Johnston.
He has a brother and a sister, both of whom are also singers. He lives with his mother and three older siblings in Carlisle, Cumbria, in the north of England. He also has a younger brother, a younger sister, and a younger half-brother, who also sings in the cathedral choir. In September 2008, before the release of his first album, Johnston embarked on a tour of Norway with the choir, performing at Stavanger Cathedral and Utstein Abbey, among other places. The tour was conceived because the Diocese of Stavangers is connected with the Dioceses of Carlisle through the Partnership for World Mission. This was Johnston’s last tour with the Choir, and it was his last tour before he released his album, The Choral Music of F. W Wadely, released in November 2008. In May, he sang Eric Clapton’s “Tears in Heaven” at the London 2012 Olympics.
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